Eco-driving rail automation systems reduce energy consumption and are key to making the rail industry more sustainable. Automatic train operation orchestrates rail fleets, empowering operators to run their trains more efficiently.

With the widest components portfolio in the rail industry, Alstom offers the best solution available to original equipment manufacturers, operators and asset owners, for increasingly safe and environmentally-friendly travel.

Mar 21, 2023 · Frank Schleier, Head of the Locomotives Platform in Alstom, has been working with heavy locomotive machinery for two decades and explains how these “rail workhorses” are becoming greener through ongoing innovation.

To secure approval, GE agreed to form joint ventures with French companies in power generation and transmission, Alstom's heavy gas turbine business was sold to Ansaldo Energia, and GE agreed to sell Alstom's rail signalling business. The deal was finalised in November 2015; since then, Alstom has been operating solely in the rail sector.

Alstom Transport Deutschland, formerly Linke-Hofmann-Busch, is a German manufacturing company originally established in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) to produce locomotives and rolling stock. Its origins lay in the wheelwright business of Gottfried Linke, begun in 1834.

Nov 25, 2024 · Regional rail operator RMV, which covers services in the Hesse region, has announced it is going to replace its relatively new hydrogen fleet with diesel-powered rolling stock from next year. That’s after a “two-year series of mishaps”.

3 days ago · Alstom has announced that it will host the UK’s largest ever gathering of historic rail vehicles – The Greatest Gathering – to mark the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. On Friday 1, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 August 2025, Alstom’s historic Litchurch Lane Site in Derby will open to the public for the first time in over 50 years.

5 days ago · The event forms part of the wider Railway 200 festivities, a year-long celebration marking the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) on 27 September 1825 – and a journey that gave birth to the modern railway.. Senior figures from the rail industry attended the launch event on Thursday 30 January, enjoying speeches from Gian Luca Erbacci, Europe Region President at Alstom ...

5 days ago · Alstom has secured a contract valued at approximately €144m ($150.2m) to provide traction components and other electrical equipment for the Vande Bharat sleeper trains in India.. The deal signed with Indian Railways’ Integral Coach Factory in Chennai also includes a maintenance service package for the equipment supplied for a period of five years post-warranty.

4 days ago · Tickets have gone on sale for one of the biggest Railway 200 events at Alstom’s Litchurch Lane factory in Derby. The event called ‘The Greatest Gathering’ will take place from August 1-3 and will feature more than 50 rolling stock exhibits and be a highlight of the year-long celebrations marking the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) on …